Anybody else watching "Top Shot" on the History Channel? It's a competition for marksmen(and women). It's kind of awesome.

Breaking News: Obama directs the DOJ to stop defending DOMA. It's about damn time ( Read more... )

The Senate has just voted to repeal DADT. The vote is a filibuster-proof 63-33 majority - a lot of the credit is going to the Pentagon study ( Read more... )

I'm so proud to be a Dan Savage fangirl right now, I can't even tell you. The "It Gets Better" project is, I think, something that actually stands a chance of really helping LBTQ teens get through the horribleness ( Read more... )

I am Spammity Spammenstein today.

1. Meant to link to this and forgot. For the Avatar fans on the flist, here is an essay I wrote about the episode "The Southern Raiders," which is often touted as a big Zutara episode, but which I assert is actually hugely important episode for Kataang. In case anybody's interested ( Read more... )

I haven't posted yet about the Prop 8 ruling, mostly because so many others have done it so much better than I can. It probably won't surprise any of you that I was thrilled about the decision. I was so pleased to read the ruling and see Judge Walker articulate what so many gay marriage proponents have been saying all along, namely that civil ( Read more... )

Want to feel better about the gay rights' cause today? Go read this Newsweek article by Theodore Olson, a longtime conservative and Reagan/Bush Republican who is one of the two attorneys bringing the court case to try and overturn Prop 8 in California ( Read more... )

I know I've said this before, but Heart was so awesome. Vintage Heart and 80s Heart, it's all good. "Barracuda" is on the Pod right now, and last night I heard "Crazy on You" and "Alone" and they just rock so hard. They need to come back. STAT ( Read more... )

Hi guys!

I will be Twittering from the Cincinnati Pride festival today, so if you want to follow, I'm madlori there too.

Looks like a beautiful day to talk about gay fiction...and wear my awesome big patchwork hippie dress! Pics to come, I promise.

I feel awful today. Not physically, emotionally. I don't know why. I'm just feeling unloved, taken for granted, stressed out and generally emo.

Wah, emo kid.

This new brief from the administration defending DOMA doesn't help.Dang. What the heck was that? A few hours later and I feel perfectly fine. I just had this buildup of depression come ( Read more... )

So it seems that a lot of people who might not be so happy about it are starting to get the idea that gay marriage is going to happen. It's only a matter of time. And I'm hearing that the haters have found something new to obsess over, namely what will it mean for them when it DOES happen ( Read more... )